You may want to try this. <br>Make a copy of the Sent Messages.mbox in a more accessible location (such as your personal documents folder.) Rename the copy to something like oldsent.mbox<br>Start Mail.<br>From the "File" menu, choose "Import Mailboxes".
<br>For "Choose type of mailboxes to import" try "Mail for Mac OS X"<br>Navigate to the folder containing the copy you created.<br>Check the copy to be imported and click the forward button.<br><br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mark Des Cotes</b> <<a href="mailto:mark@astroprinting.com">mark@astroprinting.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all,<br><br>Mail 1.3.11 on OS 10.3.9<br><br>I was cleaning out my "Sent" mailbox by deleting close to 3000 messages<br>(leaving about 2000). When I quit Mail a message came up that the<br>Mailbox could not be compressed and would be returned to it's previous
<br>state. When I launched Mail again the Sent mailbox was empty. I checked<br>under User/~/Mail/POP.../ and the Sent Messages.mbox file is there and<br>weighs in at 1.48 GB. How do I get these messages back into Mail?<br>
<br>Mark Des Cotes<br>Systems Manager/Graphic Designer<br><br>Astro Printing Service (Cornwall) Ltd.<br>3308 Second Street East<br>Cornwall Ontario Canada K6H 6J8<br>T (613) 932-9281 Ext 106, F (613) 932-1052<br><a href="http://www.astroprinting.com">
www.astroprinting.com</a><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>